Iowa is still too close to call as the candidates try to break through in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney votes to convict as Trump is acquitted, and the President’s State of the Union should be a wake up call for Democrats. Then Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg talks to Dan about his post-Iowa strategy.

Show notes

Iowa

• NYT: New results in from Iowa. Same leaders.
• RealClear Politics: Takeaways From the Early Iowa Caucus Results
• Politico: The biggest problem for Democrats wasn’t the vote count
• NYT: Live: Iowa Caucus Results 2020 
• FiveThirtyEight: Latest From Iowa: Buttigieg Still Leads On Delegates, Sanders On Votes, But It’s Close
• Bloomberg: Buttigieg Bets on Friends-and-Family Tactic to Win Iowa Caucuses
• CNN: Buttigieg to focus on converting Trump voters for final week in Iowa
• NYMag: The Iowa Caucus Results Suggest We’re in for a Long, Strange Primary
• BuzzFeed: Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Surge Is Settling Into A Surreal Anticlimax
• NBC: Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers
• NYMag: The Iowa Caucus Results Suggest We’re in for a Long, Strange Primary
• NYMag: Elizabeth Warren’s Tough Road Ahead
• NYT: Biden and Warren Seek Revival, With Two Very Different Strategies
• Politico: First head rolls after Biden’s weak Iowa finish
• FiveThirtyEight: Our Post-Iowa Primary Forecast Is Up, And Biden’s Chances Are Down
• Slate: How Pete Beat Joe
• WSJ: How Iowa Slipped Away From Joe Biden
• NBC: After Iowa ‘gut punch,’ Biden sharpens criticism of Sanders and Buttigieg
• BuzzFeed: Joe Biden Argued He’s The One Who Can Win. What Happens After He Blew It In Iowa?
• Medium: A note to supporters of ACRONYM
• Politico: The Death of Iowa (2/04)
• Politico: Bloomberg feasts on Iowa chaos

Impeachment

• NYT: Romney, Defying the Party He Once Personified, Votes to Convict Trump
• Politico: Red state Democrats stick with party to convict Trump 
• CNN: Democrat Doug Jones facing reelection headwinds as he votes to convict Trump
• WaPo: Sen. Jones says he will vote to convict Trump, drawing criticism from GOP rivals
• Roll Call: Doug Jones, facing ‘lose-lose’ situation, opts to convict Trump
• New Yorker: HOW DOUG JONES REACHED HIS DECISION ON THE IMPEACHMENT VOTE 
• AZ Central: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says she will vote to convict President Trump on impeachment charges
• NYT: How Impeachment Puts Doug Jones in a No-Win Situation in Alabama
• PBS News: Romney’s surprise vote is Democrats’ impeachment silver lining 
• WaPo: No senator ever voted to remove a president of his party from office. Until Mitt Romney. 
• Politico: Romney will vote to convict, denying Trump unanimous Republican support 
• The Atlantic: How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty 
• Axios: Romney explained impeachment vote in note to colleagues
• WaPo: ‘The president is guilty’: Mitt Romney’s speech on his vote to convict Trump, annotated
• CNN: RNC chairwoman disagrees with her uncle Mitt Romney on impeachment vote
• WaPo: McConnell declines to say whether Romney should be expelled from GOP
• The Hill: GOP senators reject punishing Romney for impeachment vote

SOTU

• NYT: Six Takeaways From Trump’s State of the Union Address 
• The Atlantic: The State of the Union Was an Elaborate Troll
• NPR: What We Learned From Trump’s State Of The Union Address
•  NBC News: Trump’s State of the Union filled with pride, partisanship and theatrics
•  WaPo: Guests help Trump highlight State of the Union themes 
•  NYT: Full Transcript: Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address
• NYT: President Obama’s State of the Union Address
• NBC News: Standing behind Trump, Nancy Pelosi rips up a copy of his State of the Union speech right after he finishes
• WaPo: Rush Limbaugh awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom at State of the Union
• CNN: READ: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union address
• Vox: Gretchen Whitmer’s smart, boring speech highlighted Democrats’ biggest 2020 dilemma
• NBC News: Michigan Gov. Whitmer, in Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union, says no one above the law